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During your implementation you were able to customize your skills by choosing your own skills categories and skill sets for candidates. Now you can configure the way these skills are set up and accessed within mindSCOPE.

These are the administrative features relating to skills:

Purge Expired Ghost Skills
Check ALL SKILLS Table Consistencies
Preferences

Purge Expired Ghost Skills

When PARIS (mindSCOPE's resume management tool) scans over the body of a resume, it looks for skills that it recognizes as listed in the skill sets you've set up and applies them under the proper categories. The problem is that it does not think in terms of context; it simply sees a word and applies it. For example, if a candidate's resume says that he's a window washer, PARIS sees the word "windows" and puts it under the Software category. Ghost skills were created to help combat this unavoidable problem. If PARIS pulls in an "undesirable" skill, you can easily delete it off the candidate's record by clicking on the skill itself and choosing "Delete" from the box that appears. If this change is saved, the skill will now be applied to the candidate's Ghost Skills.This means that the next time that candidate's resume is scanned into mindSCOPE (e.g. you receive an updated resume) the "ghost skill" will not be pulled back on.

Purge Expired Ghosted Skills will remove all ghost skills which are older than a specified date. The expiry date is based on your settings.

For detailed instructions on how to purge expired ghost skills, please refer to the .PDF version of the System Administrators Guide [link].

Check ALL SKILLS Table Consistencies

This function will check the consistency of all skills found in the Candidate, Client, and Job Order tables. If mindSCOPE finds an inconsistency it will repair it automatically.

1. From the Menu Bar click on Maintenance
2. Arrow down to Check ALL SKILLS Table Consistencies and click on it.

Once you click on Check ALL SKILLS Table Consistencies mindSCOPE pops up a warning:
To continue click on Yes mindSCOPE will then search your database and verify the consistency of your files. mindSCOPE's progress is displayed in the bottom left corner.

When finished, mindSCOPE will inform you of any inconsistencies that were found.

Preferences

The view preferences allow you to control your system defaults, enable or disable certain features, and customize the program. Each user can modify certain settings on their copy of the software; the system administrator, however, is able to make changes which affect all computers using the system.

For detailed instructions on how to configure preferences, please refer to the .PDF version of the System Administrators Guide [link].